WATCH: Incredible family encounter with ocean giants

A father and son shared a once-in-a-lifetime experience after coming into an extremely close encounter with a pair of whales near Shoreham, Victoria.

Drew Woods and his seven-year-old son Ollie were about to head out to paddleboard off the coast of Shoreham, on the Mornington Peninsula, about midday yesterday when something caught their eye in the distance.